Englerina

Aerial, hemiparasitic shrubs, +/- 0.5-2 m high with a single haustorial attachment, glabrous or shortly hairy with simple or slightly branched hairs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, sessile to generally petiolate; lamina usually thin but sometimes coriaceous, penninerved. Inflorescence a 2-20-flowered pedunculate umbel with flowers standing up like candles from horizontal branches; bract unilaterally developed from a generally shallow cupular base, not or scarcely exceeding calyx. Calyx annular or cup-shaped, sometimes 4-lobed or lacerate. Corolla 4-lobed, joined one-fifth to two-thirds, red, yellow, orange or pink and white; buds generally 4-angular, generally slightly swollen over anthers; tube split unilaterally with V-split extending halfway to almost to base. Filaments arising at or near base of corolla lobes, free part tapered upwards, involutely curved or coiled at anthesis, produced into a tooth in front of anther; anther 4-thecous. Style filiform, 4-angular; stigma obovoid to globular. Berry obovoid to urceolate, with persistent calyx, usually red. Seed orange or yellow.